Need for Packer

We need one way of creating image irrespective of your VM’s provider. The answer is Packer

How To install

• Packer is developed in language called GO
• Installing Packer on Linux

Lab Setup

• AWS
• Azure

Create a Linux Machine in AWS Account with spring-petclinic

• Create a aws ec2 machine with t2 micro and any linux image (Ubuntu)
• Login into VM and then do the following

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk -y
wget <>
java -jar spring-petclinic.jar